The 2025 Premier League Darts, also known as the 2025 BetMGM Premier League Darts for sponsorship reasons, was a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation â the twenty-first edition of the tournament. The event began on Thursday 6 February 2025, at the SSE Arena in Belfast, and ended with the play-offs, at The O<sub>2</sub> Arena in London on Thursday 29 May 2025.
Luke Littler was the defending champion after defeating Luke Humphries 11âÂÂ7 in the 2024 final, but was defeated by Humphries 11âÂÂ8 in the final, who won his first Premier League title and completed the Triple Crown.
There were five nine-dart finishes hit over the course of the tournament. Night five produced the first two; Humphries hit the first in his 6âÂÂ4 loss to Rob Cross, then Cross hit his own perfect leg in his semi-final against Nathan Aspinall, a match he lost 6âÂÂ5. Littler hit the third nine-dart finish of the tournament in his night seven final win against Michael van Gerwen. Gerwyn Price hit the fourth on night 10 in his 6âÂÂ3 quarter-final loss against Littler. On night 15, Price hit his second nine-dart finish and the fifth of the tournament in his 6âÂÂ4 quarter-final loss to Stephen Bunting.
Luke Littler achieved a record six nightly wins during the league stage and also broke his own seasonal points record, finishing on 45 points.
The 2025 Premier League Darts used the same format that was introduced for the 2022 edition. It remained an eight-person knockout bracket every night, with each of the seven matches played as the first to six legs. The players were guaranteed to meet each other once in the quarter-finals throughout the first seven weeks, and once in the quarter-finals in weeks 9âÂÂ15, with weeks 8 and 16 being drawn based on the league standings at that point. Players received two points per semi-final finish, three points per runner-up finish, and five points per final win.
Following the league phase, the top four players in the table contested the two knockout semi-finals with 1st playing 4th and 2nd playing 3rd.
The prize money for the 2025 edition of the tournament remained at ã1 million, including a ã10,000 bonus to each night's winner.
The top four players on the PDC Order of MeritâÂÂLuke Humphries, Luke Littler, Michael van Gerwen and Rob CrossâÂÂautomatically qualified. The remaining four players were announced on 6 January 2025 live on Sky Sports News. The announcement saw two changes made from the 2024 lineup, with Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey replacing Peter Wright and Michael Smith. Former participants and Scottish World Cup duo Wright and Gary Anderson were not selected, marking the first Premier League line-up to not feature a player representing Scotland since 2010. Reigning World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker became the first victor of a premier event televised on Sky Sports to miss out on selection the following year.
The fixtures were released on 22 January 2025. Match winners are shown in bold and all players are accompanied by their three-dart average for the match.
Luke Humphries was the winner on Night 1, defeating Chris Dobey 6âÂÂ1 in the night's final.
Luke Littler was the winner on Night 2, defeating Luke Humphries 6âÂÂ5 in the nightâÂÂs final.
Gerwyn Price was the winner on Night 3, defeating Nathan Aspinall 6âÂÂ3 in the night's final.
Luke Humphries was the winner on Night 4, defeating Luke Littler 6âÂÂ4 in the nightâÂÂs final.
Luke Littler was the winner on Night 5, defeating Nathan Aspinall 6âÂÂ3 in the night's final.
Gerwyn Price was the winner on Night 6, defeating Luke Littler 6âÂÂ3 in the night's final.
Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff
Luke Littler was the winner on Night 7, defeating Michael van Gerwen 6âÂÂ4 in the night's final.
Luke Littler was the winner on Night 8, defeating Luke Humphries 6âÂÂ1 in the night's final.
Stephen Bunting was the winner on Night 9, defeating Gerwyn Price 6âÂÂ5 in the night's final. Michael van Gerwen withdrew due to a shoulder injury.
Nathan Aspinall was the winner on Night 10, defeating Luke Humphries 6âÂÂ4 in the night's final.
Chris Dobey was the winner on Night 11, defeating Stephen Bunting 6âÂÂ2 in the night's final.
Gerwyn Price was the winner on Night 12, defeating Luke Humphries 6âÂÂ4 in the night's final.
Luke Littler was the winner on Night 13, defeating Michael van Gerwen 6âÂÂ4 in the night's final.
Luke Humphries was the winner on Night 14, defeating Luke Littler 6âÂÂ5 in the night's final.
Nathan Aspinall was the winner on Night 15, defeating Chris Dobey 6âÂÂ1 in the night's final.
Luke Littler was the winner on Night 16, defeating Luke Humphries 6âÂÂ3 in the night's final.
The top four players of the league stage contested the play-offs to decide the champion of the Premier League.
Luke Humphries won the Premier League for the first time, defeating Luke Littler 11âÂÂ8 in the final. This made Humphries the fourth player to complete the PDC Triple Crown after Gary Anderson, Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen.
Five points are awarded for a night win, three points for the runner-up and two points for the losing semi-finalists. When players are tied on points, nights won is used first as a tie-breaker and after that overall matches won.
The top four players after 16 nights advanced to the play-offs.
(C) Champion<br>(RU) Runner-up<br>(E) Eliminated<br> (Q) Qualified
Night two of the 2025 Premier League in Glasgow was marred by disruptive crowd behaviour, particularly whistling sounds aimed at Gerwyn Price during his semi-final match with Luke Humphries, as well as at Humphries himself along with opponent Luke Littler during the final. The disruption led to referee Kirk Bevins asking the crowd to stop whistling during his officiating of the latter contest. Price responded to the hecklers by whistling back at them as Humphries jokingly covered his ears. Sky Sports presenter Abigail Davies showed her displeasure with the crowd in a social media post, claiming "There is no way you can be a fan of the sport if you do that." Nightly winner Littler also gave his thoughts, stating that the intervention by Bevins only made the situation worse. He added: "Obviously, they've got to step in at some point and say something. But yeah, that was pretty bad, but I got the win." The PDC issued a statement on the crowd's behaviour the following day, condemning any excessive whistling or booing while players throw and reiterating that they would remove any spectators acting inappropriately.
On night five, Littler addressed media after his second nightly win and spoke about a member of the crowd throwing a pint at Nathan Aspinall moments before the final. He provided further comments surrounding crowd behaviour, stating: "I think we all know some have been good, some have been a bit bad. But that is the darts fans for you, they are either good or they are either bad."
In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the tournament was broadcast live on Sky Sports. Viaplay and DAZN also aired the tournament. In the United States, Peacock streamed the play-offs. The PDC's streaming service, PDCTV, is broadcasting the tournament for Rest of the World subscribers.